Clapboard-sawing machine



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GLAPBOARD SAWING Patented June A12, 1883.

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GLABOARD'SAWING MACHINE. No. 279,287. Patented June 12,1883.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,287, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed October 7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, HORACE TABER, of Manistee, in the county of Manistee, and in the State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Siding or Olapboard Machines 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.-

My invention relates to devices for dividing logs into sidings or clapboards, and it consists in a head-block of peculiar construction7 in combination withisaws, arranged as will hereinafter be fully described.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a plan view of my invention; Fig. 2, an end view; Fig. 3, a side view, and Figs. 4 and 5 details.

A is the head-block carriage, mountedon suitable ways, D D.

l B is a frame, from which are suspended hangers C C', through which the shaft carrying the saws P Pis passed.

E is a bracket for sustaining the arbor of the saw F.

G G are head-blocks, which have curved beds g g for the cant or log to rest in; and these beds are grooved, as shown at O O, for

accommodating the bases of the knees or jackheads M M', which may also, but not necessarily, be curved; and I provide these knees or jack-heads with faces N N, which point to the center of a circle of which the curve oi" the beds is an are, and have cogs s on their under sides for engagement with pinions t on the setting-shaft H.

The saws P P are splined or otherwise attached to the shaft Y, which slides loosely in comes in contact with the .saws P P it is` grooved near its sap7 and heart, and in its further progress it meets the larger saw, F, which, entering it, makes a radial cut, and,

extending beyond the groove made by the inof `the knees or jack-heads carrying the quarter into a proper position for a radial cut.

Instead of two saws P P, only one may be used, as it may not be necessary in some eases to take off both edges at once; or whentwo are retained on the shaft they may be made adjustable with relation to each other.

The sidings or clapboards made by my may chine are of uniform size and taper, are invariably on the same grain of the wood, and are not liable to warp out of shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim therein is- 1. Ahead-block having curved bed, in combination with a knee or jack-head having a face pointing to the center of a circle of which the curve of the bed of the head-block is an arc, and a setting device whereby the cant or quarter is 'presented to the saw F in such a position that the cuts made thereby will lead to a common center for producingsidings or elapboards, as set forth. l

2. The combination of a head-block having a curved bed and ajack or knee having a curved base arranged radially to the curved bed, substanti ally as and for the purpose specified.

. 3. A head-block having a curved bed and knee or jack-head adapted thereto for supporting a cant and carrying it about a fixed center, in combination with the saw F, arranged to produce a radial cut, as shown, and one or more edging-saws, P P, mounted on a separate arbor and at an angle to the saw F, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a clapboard-machine, the combination of a carriage so constructed, substantially as described, as to move the log or cant about a center and present it tothe saw in such manner as to produce radial cuts therein, a slicing-saw, and two edging-saws arranged at- IOO . idly attached to the Cant, substantially as Wedge-shaped section is held by the cant, subspeeiied. stantially as speeied.

5. As an improvement in the art of forming In testimony that I Claim the foregoing I siding7 the method herein described, eonsisthave hereunto set my hand this 2d day of 5 .ing in severing a Wedge-shaped longitudinal October, 1879.

section from a eant by a radial eut and sin'lul- Y taneously freeing the Wedge-shaped section l A u V n HORACE TABER" from the heart and sap edges by two longi- XVitnesses:

tudinal cuts made parallel to eaeh other and STANLEY S. STOUT,

Io to the axis of the cant during the time the ALBERT CUNNINGHAM. 

